Improving outpatient treatment for severely mentally ill persons: Ding the right thing

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hanrahan ◽  
Ira D. Glick
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Outpatient Treatment ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
The Right

Why Are Severely Mentally Ill Persons In Jail and Prison?

2005 ◽  
pp. 137-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Cutler ◽  
Douglas Bigelow ◽  
Valerie Collins ◽  
Courtney Jackson ◽  
Gary Field
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill

scholarly journals Integrating Mental Health Perspectives into the Legal Discourse on Reproductive Justice in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Malavika Parthasarathy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
The Right

The reproductive justice framework envisions a world where all women, including those situated at the intersection of multiple structures of oppression such as class, caste, sexual orientation, disability and mental health, are able to exercise their right to decisional and reproductive autonomy. S. 3(4)(a) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, provides that an abortion cannot be performed on a mentally ill woman without the consent of her guardian. I analyse the Indian Supreme Court’s decision in Suchita Srivastava v. Chandigarh Administration [(2009) 9 SCC 1] in light of contemporary legal developments in the field of disability law and mental health law. The first argument that I make in this paper is that the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, covers persons with mental illness, with the rights in the Act applicable to those with mental illness as well. The second argument rests on the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, which recognizes the right to privacy and dignity of mentally ill persons, including their capacity to make decisions affecting healthcare. I argue that the judgment, while path-breaking in its recognition of the reproductive rights of disabled women, is inimical to the rights of mentally ill women, perpetuating dangerous stereotypes about their ability to exercise choices, and dehumanizing them. It is imperative for the reproductive justice framework to inform legal discourse and judicial decision-making, to fully acknowledge the right to self-determination and bodily integrity of mentally ill persons.

Lessons Learned from Deinstitutionalisation in the US

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (5) ◽  
pp. 587-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Richard Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill ◽  
The Us ◽  
Community Programmes ◽  
New Generation

Deinstitutionalisation is at an advanced stage in the US, both in duration, and in reduction in state hospital beds. The new generation of chronically and severely mentally ill persons has posed the greatest problems. They no longer receive life-long hospital admission and thus permanent asylum from the demands of the world. Resistance to treatment and substance abuse are problems. Early proponents of deinstitutionalisation believed it would be cheaper, better, and give the mentally ill their freedom. In reality, good community care does not cost less. While a number of community programmes in the US have been impressive, they have served only a small proportion of the total population of severely mentally ill persons. More freedom has been of benefit for many, but has proved difficult for some patients. Some patients have been deinstitutionalised who cannot be effectively treated in the community. The homeless mentally ill epitomise all these problems.

scholarly journals Structures and processes necessary for providing effective home treatment to severely mentally ill persons: a naturalistic study

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Bauer ◽  
K. Kleine-Budde ◽  
C. Stegbauer ◽  
P. Kaufmann-Kolle ◽  
K. Goetz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Home Treatment ◽  
Naturalistic Study ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill

Law and Psychiatry: Scandinavia in the 1980s

1986 ◽  
Vol 484 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEIF ÖJESJÖ
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Outpatient Treatment ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
Special Defense

The major policies and practices with regard to the civil and criminal commitment of the mentally ill in the Scandinavian countries during the 1970s and 1980s are described and discussed. Deinstitutionalization, community work, and outpatient treatment within geographically defined sectors have been introduced in all the Nordic countries. At the same time, criminally committed mental patients constitute an increasing proportion of the involuntarily hospitalized population. The special defense of insanity and tests such as McNaughtan are not used in the Scandinavian countries. The handling and disposition of severely mentally ill criminal defendants is closer to the notions of guilty but mentally ill in some U.S. jurisdictions, although in Scandinavia such persons are hospitalized and do not receive penal sentences. Even though forensic psychiatry has come under much criticism, there is still a need for psychiatric evaluations for courts and there is still a need for the provision of mental health treatment, rehabilitation, and follow-up for mentally disordered offenders.

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